If you're squeeing about this movie, you may want to skip this post. And no, I won't be discussing reasons I should have loved it. I didn't.
First complaint: torture scenes, and shooting a kid's mother, and more torture scenes, and still more torture scenes do NOT belong in a PG-13 movie.
Second complaint: Emma Frost came across as a non-entity. She's a lot of things (my list generally starts with ice cold bitch), but she is NOT a non-entity.
Third complaint: God damn it, I *liked* Darwin!
Fourth complaint: Sean Cassidy was originally an accomplished Interpol agent and a literate, interesting man. I first ran into him as a teenager when he was putting on his reading glasses and laying in a glass of whisky to help him make another try at reading Joyce's Ulysses. It was lovely to have a hero who also read and (sometimes) couldn't finish books. The Banshee in this movie is okay, but did we need a Weasley clone in the X-Men? Really?
Fifth and most major: Since when is Charles Xavier, even a younger one, so morally unprincipled as to take away an *ally's* memories, without her consent? I mean, I've been known to disagree with his behavior, but I always thought he had his reasons, and that you could trust him not to go with expediency.
Things I loved*: I loved 'Angel's' wings, and the way she could hide them as tattoos. I adored Beast's insecurity and the blue fuzzy. (Although you know, he did way too many uncontrolled experiments, and had too much faith his work wouldn't go wrong. Major experiment, on himself, the night before their first major mission? Um, no.) Mysteque/Raven and her whole arc through this, including being *encouraged* to choose which side she wanted, not stay with Charles from old loyalties. Magneto being good enough at chess, as a self-educated holocaust survivor, that he's not playing white against Charles. Wolverine's cameo.
Things I ached for: that people in that age still trusted government, still trusted science.
Things I ached at: that women still had no status, that Magneto wasn't wrong that people would turn on them.
I'm not sure what I thought about Shaw, honestly. Bacon did a good job on the acting, no argument. Beyond that... I just don't know.
*Yes, really, there were some good parts. Just not enough.
Overall? No. Will probably never watch it again. Certainly won't be writing for it. And I wish we could go back to getting plot in the movies, and characterization, instead of violence and special effects.
Last, and not least: No. Really. Don't tell me reasons I should have loved it. I'm not in this to discuss it. I'm bitching in my journal, behind a cut tag so as not to harsh other people's squee, but I am not going to debate it. I loved the X-Men for years. I didn't love this. Enough said.
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